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The Netherlands also has conscription for women, but with the caveat that they haven't actually called up anyone since the late 90's

That's an extremely high bar for me to have a baby opossum, but i'll give it a shot.

I've seen quite a few management books that might as well have been AI, except they long predate it.

I used to have a "mistake" Savannah, which was at most 40% Serval (mommy got into the male enclosure and nobody knows who the lucky boy was).

He was a LOT of work. I've never had a more active cat. You can absolutely train them, and you absolutely have to, or you need to keep them in a seperate enclosure. They will fuck up your house in ways you can't imagine.

And he was only 40% serval.

It's this stuff: https://www.tesa.com/nl-nl/consument/tesa-powerbond-outdoor-ean-4042448843432.html

Or your local version of it, but this website refuses to turn to other languages for me.

Oh no, people are being prioritized over profits!

Tesa outdoor double sided tape.

That stuff is basically magic. It will stick anything to everything and you can remove it from almost any surface without leaving a mark. I used to stick a dashcam to my car window, a birdbath to my brick wall, a remote LED lamp to the ceiling (felt iffy, works great!). It's even holding a metal plate from the doorknob in place because the door is more hole than wood by now.

It beats basically every other kind of tape of multipurpose glue, and it's removable. It's kinda thick though, so you might see it, but that's also a feature when sticking rough textures to eachother.

And here we see an important lesson in UI design.

It's a damn good thing that the Romans were fond of collecting nicknames and victory titles, because the tendency of every fucking Roman family to use the same goddamn names for their kids is something else.

I'm pretty sure the second caused the first. And it beats what we barbarians in the north did, which was mostly choosing nicknames based on stuff that's also hereditary.

Oh, your name is Jan, and you're tall? You'll be Jan the Tall. No way, who could have expected your son, also named Jan, to also be tall...

Oh, your name is Piet, and you're a miller? Hello Piet Miller. No way, your son Piet also works in the very same mill you do? Nobody saw that coming, what a shock!

Hello Kees who lives in the forest, I'll call you Kees Forest from now on. What? Other people named Kees also live in the forest since the entirety of western Europe is 98% forests? Damn, that's inconvenient!

Ah, nevermind then.

“But now it carries images of superficial entertainment, disconnected from its roots,” she told AFP.

Welcome to modern life. This applies to everything. I personally think the talkies ruined cinema and radioplays need to make a comeback! None of this modern genremixing!

i remember similarly egregious corruption cases

The fact that those were cases at all, and this is going to be just a footnote in the news should be a big hint that other places take it a bit more seriously.

Not seriously enough, but a bit more